Re: What's left over.

Bill Davidsen
2002-11-01T06:29:12Z

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:
> >
> > How do you deal with netdump when your network driver is what caused the
> > crash?
>
> Actually, from a driver perspective, _the_ most likely driver to crash is
> the disk driver.
>
> That's from years of experience. The network drivers are a lot simpler,
> the hardware is simpler and more standardized, and doesn't do as many
> things. It's just plain _easier_ to write a network driver than a disk
> driver.
>
> Ask anybody who has done both.

From the standpoint of just the driver that's true. However, the remote
machine and all the network bits between them are a string of single
points of failure. Isn't it good that both disk and network can be
supported.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.